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I have been following LCW progress in most off the tournaments. Just would like to share my insight of his playing. Hope he and his coach TSB could have the same thinking as mine. LCW have to pay more attention and trains on the follow up after his smash has returned by the opponent (noticed he always lost the point if his opponent could return his smash), he should sharpen his net play as to create more attacking chances and, he should polish up his defense to more solid. Hope these thoughts are also in TSB and LCW mind. Cheers.

Does anyone here think that LCW changed the tension in his strings prior to the finals, or maybe even before? Maybe to adjust at a slightly lesser tension to prevent further aggravation to his arm? His clears were going out, smashes were strong, net play was not as tight as it should have been, and some blocked returns lacked the precision we normally associate with him. It might be interesting if we could somehow find out if his string tension was the same, or changed.

Maybe it was because he is just coming out of injury. I recall I had a mental phobia of putting too much pressure of my knees for weeks even after it was completely healed from an injury. In his case he might be putting too much into the shot or ...

You could be right, lowering the tension to reduce the effort required to smash, makes perfect sense.